Social reality

This book has something to offer both philosophers and social scientists. To the former it shows how the well-worn topic of realism versus anti-realism (in the broadest sense) assumes new and interestingly varied forms when social reality is substituted for physical reality. For the social scientist, the book offers conceptual clarification of certain key issues in recent social science which are really philosophical issues. Social Reality is written for students of philosophy and the social sciences, and lucidly explains—in terms accessible to both disciplines—the problem of social facts and social reality.